Politicizing Tarot in the Order of Nine Angles
| Název česky | Politizování tarotu v Order of Nine Angles |
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| Autoři | |
| Rok publikování | 2026 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Popis | Since the 1960s, failures in electoral competition and building mass movements led many extreme-right thinkers to theorize societal change through a dedicated minority. Extreme-right approaches were also reformulated by the Order of Nine Angles (ONA), a Left-Hand Path magical system established around 1983 by British neo-Nazi David Myatt (b. 1950). ONA aims to build an elite that would purify Western civilization of alien elements and direct it toward cosmic expansion. ONA’s key texts Naos (1990) and The Sinister Tarot (1995) attack older versions of tarot for deteriorating the evolution of the West and mankind and praise ONA’s own ‘sinister tarot’ as authentically Western archetypal images that enable an understanding of the individual psyche and the process of history. The paper analyses publications of the ONA’s formative period (1976–1998) and contextualizes its discourse on tarot into changing conceptions of societal change within the post-1960s international extreme right and the British esoteric ritual magic. By this contextualization, the paper shows how ‘politicizing’ the tarot provided the ONA with novel arenas for its macro-historical project and broadened the framework for developing the new elite. |
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